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jQueryMobile in a weekend

I played with jQueryMobile during the weekend and was really surprised by the productivity you get with the framework. In like 4hrs I was able to create a great looking app that was running with any major glitches on my Android phone. Now when I compare that to the challenges I was experiencing when coding with Android :) Some lessons learned from the weekend: - Good IDE for javascript is a must. Aptana really rules in that area, you can add it to your Android Eclipse installation easily -  http://aptana.com/products/studio3/download - There are challenges on Android when you move between pages of the app. The whole screen blinks. Apparently you need to disable the transition effect on Android, like below: $.mobile.defaultDialogTransition = "none"; $.mobile.defaultPageTransition = "none"; - I18N is not built into the jQM, but there are some interesting workarounds, like  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8134555/jquery-mobile-json-processing-before-mob...